Welcome to The Kitchen Playground. Cooking can bring great joy and great despair. I hope that the recipes you find here, many of which are very quick to make with the weeknight in mind, help you to experience more joy than despair. Many recipes have instructions for the Thermomix 31 as well as traditional instructions. The emphasis is on real, fresh food that combines flavour, texture and scent to delight the senses.
So here we are in wet, wet Sydney. Rain is such a novelty for us Melbournites. Courtesy of the Bread Winner’s company, we have free use of a simply divine 3 bedroom apartment right on the Harbour. The apartment is bigger than our house. I could happily sit on the couch for a week just […]
The fridge is starting to look really bare now. The vegetable bins are actually empty. Gosh, that was possibly premature, I still have 1 or 2 more dinners to cook. Oh well, surely I have something in the freezer, that’s still pretty full. This one is Vietnamese by inspiration and was a genuine 10 minute […]
Absolute serendipity once again. A beautifully harmonious blend of things left in the fridge. Made in the thermomix. Could be made almost as quickly using a food processor to chopa nd a saucepan to cook. Messier though. Love my thermomix. Carrot, Chickpea and Ginger Soup 1 salad onion 1 shallot 3 cloves garlic 6 carrots, […]
Well that was either a quiick hiatus or a premature announcement. Actually I just found a scrap of paper with a curry on it that I made the other night and forgot to post. I made this entirely in the thermomix, then removed it, cooked the rice in the thermomix and reheated the curry in […]
My kids have a stock standard favourite for a stinking hot day and we just whipped up a new batch. Our supplies have been rapidly depleted with the recent hot weather. Watermelon icy poles. Simply puree watermelon in a thermomix or food processor and pour into those plactic thingies for making icy poles and freeze. […]
We had lunch today to celebrate the birthday’s of my father and Second Born. Just a simple BBQ. I was on cake duty. So I made the same spice cake from Nourishing Traditions that I made for First Born’s fourth. This time though I made it a photo of the two birthday people. An idea […]
Yesterday I knew two things about today. Firstly that I was going to Mt Martha which is an hour and a half drive each way. Secondly that it was going to be 41 degrees. Both of those things meant that I was not going to have the time to cook and that it would be […]
Doesn’t that sound good? Cos it was. Steak and Haloumi Sandwich 1 rump steak (I used the one steak for 2 adults) 1 piece of haloumi cut into 1 cm wide strips 1 tomato, sliced juice 1 lemon 2 red onions, sliced lettuce leaves bread (I used homemade spelt and wheat) Slowly pan fry onions […]
A simple meal tonight by request of First Born. Baked potatoes. I popped a bunch of desirees in the oven (180 degrees) before wandering off to a friend’s for a cuppa. Pricked them with a fork and sprayed them with olive oil first. When we got home I sliced some free range bacon and mushrooms […]
With this from our garden, some form of peach dessert was a necessity. I didn’t really feel like an actual peach pie and the thermomix was too busy with bolognaise sauce for dinner to make pastry. So once again, filo to the rescue and pie becomes strudel. I preface this recipe by saying that I […]